BuiltIn Jobs Scraper

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🎯 What this scrapes

BuiltIn (builtin.com) is a tech/startup job-listing aggregator that pulls in postings from thousands of employers — not a single company's own careers page. This Actor scrapes builtin.com/jobs and its keyword/category/city filter variants into structured rows: title, company, location(s), work mode (remote/hybrid/onsite), salary band, seniority, category tags, top skills, and a description snippet. Built on curl-cffi with browser TLS impersonation and Apify Proxy rotation.

🔥 What we handle for you

• 🛡️ Browser fingerprint rotation — curl-cffi impersonates real Chrome / Firefox / Safari TLS handshakes so the target sees a browser, not Python.
• 🌐 Residential proxy rotation via Apify Proxy — fresh session and exit IP on every block.
• 🔁 Retries with exponential backoff on 408 / 429 / 5xx — up to 5 attempts per page, Retry-After honoured.
• 🧱 Rate-limit-aware pacing — when the target pushes back, we slow down instead of getting banned.
• 🧊 Clean, typed dataset rows — Pydantic-validated, ISO-8601 timestamps, stable IDs, JSON / CSV / Excel export straight from the Apify Console.
• 💰 Pay-Per-Event pricing — you only pay for results that hit your dataset. No data, no charge.

💡 Use cases

• Recruiting-agency sourcing — surface fresh tech/startup roles across many employers in one feed, filterable by keyword, city, or category.
• Talent-market research — track salary bands, seniority mix, and remote/hybrid/onsite split for a given role or region.
• Sales intel for HR-tech vendors — spot companies actively hiring for a target function as a buying signal.
• Competitive hiring watch — monitor a category or city's job volume and salary trends over time.
• Job-board aggregation — feed a normalized BuiltIn slice into a broader multi-source job dataset.

⚙️ How to use it

1. Click Try for free at the top of the page.
2. Fill in the input form — most fields have sensible defaults.
3. Click Start. Output streams into the run's dataset.
4. Export from Storage → Dataset as JSON, CSV, or Excel — or fetch via the API.

📥 Input

Field	Type	Required	Default	Notes
search	string	no	'engineer'	Keyword search term, e.g. engineer. Matches BuiltIn's ?search= query param. Leave empty to…
city	string	no	'—'	City filter, free text or slug (e.g. Austin, TX or austin-tx) — normalized automatically.…
category	string	no	'—'	BuiltIn category filter, free text or slug (e.g. Data Science or data-science) — normalized…
maxResults	integer	no	100	Cap on emitted rows (~25 job cards per page). Pagination stops once this cap is reached, even mid-page.
proxyConfiguration	object	no	{'useApifyProxy': True}	Apify Proxy configuration. No anti-bot signal observed on this target — the default shared/datacenter pool is…

Example input

{
  "search": "engineer",
  "city": null,
  "category": null,
  "maxResults": 5,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}

📤 Output

Every row is one dataset item.

Field	Type	Notes
job_id	string	Numeric ID suffix of the job URL / card's data-builtin-track-job-id.
title	string	Job title.
url	string	Absolute URL to the job posting on builtin.com.
company_name	string	Hiring company name.
company_url	['string', 'null']	Absolute URL to the company's builtin.com profile; null if the card lacks the link.
company_logo_url	['string', 'null']	Company logo image URL.
location	string	Raw location text, e.g. 'Olathe, KS, USA' or '3 Locations'.
locations	array	Parsed list of individual locations when the card shows 'N Locations'; otherwise a single-element list matching…
work_mode	string	One of Remote, Hybrid, Onsite, or Not specified.
posted_text	string	Raw relative-time text, e.g. '7 Minutes Ago'.
posted_at_estimate	['string', 'null']	ISO-8601 timestamp computed from posted_text; null if unparseable.
salary_raw	['string', 'null']	Raw salary text, e.g. '142K-204K Annually'; null if no salary is listed.
salary_min	['integer', 'null']	First number in salary_raw, K/M suffix expanded.
salary_max	['integer', 'null']	Second number in salary_raw, or equal to salary_min if only one number is present.
seniority	['string', 'null']	Seniority level, e.g. 'Senior level'.
categories	array	Job category tags (may be empty).
top_skills	array	Top skill tags (may be empty).
description_snippet	string	Plain-text description excerpt (may be empty).

Example output

{
  "job_id": "10451551",
  "title": "Sr. Finance Manager, Supply Chain",
  "url": "https://builtin.com/job/sr-finance-manager-supply-chain/10451551",
  "company_name": "Aerospace Corporation",
  "company_url": "https://builtin.com/company/aerospace-corporation",
  "company_logo_url": "https://cdn.builtin.com/logos/aerospace-corp.png",
  "location": "El Segundo, CA, USA",
  "locations": [
    "El Segundo, CA, USA"
  ],
  "work_mode": "Hybrid",
  "posted_text": "7 Minutes Ago",
  "posted_at_estimate": "2026-07-30T14:23:00Z",
  "salary_raw": "142K-204K Annually",
  "salary_min": 142000,
  "salary_max": 204000,
  "seniority": "Senior level",
  "categories": [
    "Aerospace",
    "Machine Learning",
    "Cybersecurity",
    "Defense"
  ],
  "top_skills": [
    "Excel",
    "SAP",
    "Forecasting"
  ],
  "description_snippet": "The Aerospace Corporation is seeking a Senior Finance Manager..."
}

💰 Pricing

Pay-Per-Event — you pay only when these events fire:

Event	USD	What it is
actor-start	$0.02	One-off warm-up charge per run
result	$0.0015	Per dataset item

Example: 1 000 results at the rates above ≈ $1.52. No subscription, no minimum, no card to start — Apify gives every new account $5 of free credit.

🚧 Limitations

BuiltIn shows roughly 25 job cards per page; large result sets paginate accordingly and pagination stops as soon as a page is empty or repeats the previous page's job IDs. There is no enumerated city/category taxonomy — free text is passed through and resolved by the target, so a typo'd filter silently returns zero rows rather than an error. Only fields present on the listing card itself are captured; this Actor does not follow through to each job's own detail page or the employer's company profile.

❓ FAQ

Does this cover every BuiltIn city and category?

Free-text city/category values are slugified and passed straight to builtin.com. An unmatched slug returns zero rows (a valid empty filter), not an error.

Why is salary_raw sometimes null?

Not every listing publishes a salary band on builtin.com. When the card has no salary line, salary_raw/salary_min/salary_max are all null.

What does work_mode return when it's unclear?

Unrecognized or missing work-mode text falls back to "Not specified" rather than guessing.

Can I combine search, city, and category?

Yes. category and city are path segments; search is a query param (moving city alongside it when both are set). Combining search with a category path is supported but its narrowing behavior is unverified — worst case is an unfiltered-by-category result, never an error.

How fresh is posted_at_estimate?

Computed from BuiltIn's own relative-time text (e.g. '7 Minutes Ago') at the moment your run executes. Phrasing outside the known patterns leaves it null while posted_text keeps the raw string.

💬 Your feedback

Spotted a bug, hit a weird edge case, or need a new field? Open an issue on the Actor's Issues tab on Apify Console — we ship fixes weekly and we read every report.

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